Patient safety research

Healthcare is not a machine to be oiled. It is not something that can be shaved, and tweaked, and optimized to a point of lean flawlessness.

Rather, healthcare is a complex-adaptive system. As such, it’s models for safety and efficiency cannot (indeed must not) rely on the “retrospectoscope” of hindsight. And it certainly, must not name-blame-shame-and-train when handling error or inefficiency. Resilience Engineering may well be the cutting edge of patient safety science. Here’s how you can participate… More

The mission of the Center is to improve patient safety in today’s complex world of medicine, identify and test ways to better protect patients from harm, and help create an ultra-safe care environment at MedStar Health and beyond. More